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RE: Moving to a new course site
Andy,
 
The trick to use    " target ="_top      instead of        target="_top"  . The first " will complete the http value and the missing " at the end of target value will be supplied by Bb code.
 
Jie


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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Moving to a new course site

Jie

That works fine if you want to create the link from an Announcement, say, but I don't think it works as an External Link.

In an announcement, you can edit the HTML and insert the target="_top" within the <a href> tag. But that same flexibility isn't available using the External Link functionality: if I provide the URL as

http://www.tvu.ac.uk target="_top"

my browser actually translates that as http://www.tvu.ac.uk%20target=%22_top%22/
which of course cannot be found.

Has anyone found a way round this?

Andy Turner

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> Subject: Re: Moving to a new course site

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> Hi Peter,

>

> You may try creating a course menu button of 'External Link' type and

> entering the

> http://bbsiteAddress/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/co

> mmon/course.pl?course_id=_3458_1" target="_top as URL. The http part can

> be copied from course site link under 'My Courses'.

>

> Jie

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> Peter

> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:04 PM

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> Subject: Moving to a new course site

>

>

> Sorry to those who realise I have asked this before but I was surprised

> that no-one said I had missed the obvious, or may be I just did not

> explain what I wanted to do!

>

> In a pretty much normal Blackboard course I want to have an option in

> the left-hand menu bar that opens a new blackboard course. However

> rather than having that open within the right hand content window

> (nested as it were) I want it to completely overwrite the active window.

> Can anyone suggest how to do that please?

>

> Peter

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